Bio

Find out more about my music here: Projects

Upcoming and past performances, meditations, and installations are listed here: Performances

I teach flute here in Seattle. Find more information here: Teaching

I’m also currently writing music education materials. Find PDF downloads and audio examples here: Materials

Nicolo Scolieri (he/him). 

I pronounce my name /ˈniːkəloʊ skəˈlɛəri/ (NEE-kuh-loh skuh-LAIR-ee). There’s also an Italian pronunciation that I always love to hear. 

I also go by “Nico”, pronounced /ˈniːkoʊ/ (NEE-koh).

Based in Seattle, WA. 

Monday through Thursday, I work as a Program Coordinator in printed circuit board manufacturing. 

Fridays and Saturdays, I teach music. 

I work on music and meditation projects throughout the week.

I studied Ethnomusicology at UCLA - I also worked at the school's Music Library, and taught production at the radio station. 

After graduating, I moved to Washington, DC to work on the Research, Archives, and Data Strategy team at National Public Radio (NPR). I was then contracted to work in audio archiving for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), primarily digitizing tapes from the early 1980s. 

I continued making radio, and after an ecoacoustics/field recording workshop in France, I began working with the sound art group Cities and Memory - that has continued to this day, and has included several gallery installations. 

In Seattle, I applied my library background to technology, doing inventory management and procurement at the circuit board company Monsoon Solutions. I've also done design work on the company website, and based on that experience (and a long-time interest in industrial design and city planning), I took a continuing education course in user experience design through UW. That period included freelance work in graphic design, website design, sound design, and some personal user experience research projects. 

Most recently, I co-founded a meditation group here in Seattle (which has been meeting now for two years!). During that time, I've started to play music more out in the world again, based in a music theory and composition technique that I can trace back to our group's studies of sound meditation and sound bath music. Very grateful and excited!